2026

Igniting a Refinance Surge Ahead of Spring Housing Season The average rate on a 30-year fixed loan fell to 5.99% this week, matching its lowest level since 2022. A year ago, borrowers faced rates closer to 6.9%, underscoring how sharply financing costs have eased in recent months. The pullback is already reigniting refinancing activity. Applications to refinance a home loan have surged roughly 130%...

Nearly half of Americans are grappling with the monthly burden of rent or mortgage payments, a stark indicator of the persistent affordability crisis plaguing the U.S. housing market, according to a fresh survey released by real-estate brokerage Redfin. The poll reveals that 49% of U.S. residents report difficulties in keeping up with their housing costs, up from 44% in a similar survey last spring. The...

Image Porter says attitudes towards climate risk have shifted from being a peripheral concern to a core financial risk...

KODE Labs, a pioneer in smart building and real estate intelligence software, today launched EnerG, a powerful, centralized, AI-enabled platform designed to transform fragmented utility, sustainability, and performance data into actionable insights for enterprise portfolios. Developed in partnership with global real estate organizations, EnerG addresses increasing pressure around sustainability reporting,...

Office Sector Reclaims Top Spot; Investment Set to Climb Up to 10 Percent Asia-Pacific commercial real estate is entering 2026 with renewed momentum as investors and occupiers reposition portfolios around income growth, even as the region's broader economic expansion cools. A new outlook from CBRE projects investment volumes across the region will rise between 5% and 10% this year, extending a rebound...

After a weekend of crazy headlines and a stock sell-off on Monday morning, bond yields are close to hitting 4% again, but mortgage rates are back under 6% once again, which is the multiyear low in recent history. The biggest reason rates are under 6% isn’t just that the 2025 labor market produced the lowest job-growth year in the 21st century outside of recession. It’s because mortgage spreads are...

Investor sentiment in the fix-and-flip housing market improved at the end of 2025, even as overall transaction volume fell to its lowest level in a decade. That’s according to a recent survey conducted by Kiavi and John Burns Research & Consulting. In the fourth quarter of 2025, the Burns + Kiavi Fix and Flip Market Index rose to a reading of 62, marking its largest quarterly rise in three...

Housing affordability is usually framed through numbers: mortgage rates, housing supply, construction costs and zoning restrictions. Washington debates the numbers, and families feel the squeeze. But there is another housing cost hiding in plain sight—real estate fraud. With Congress working on bipartisan housing solutions and the State of the Union address just around the corner, it’s encouraging...

In the two-thousand-mid-teens, you would not have needed a crystal ball to predict that three Japan-based vertically integrated real estate powerhouses would each rank among the nation’s top 15 enterprises. That’s because each of those three organizations – Daiwa House, Sekisui House and Sumitomo Forestry – having established beachheads in the U.S. homebuilding and residential development...

Leadership at C2 Financial is looking to reclaim a top wholesale ranking by strengthening its infrastructure, leveraging artificial intelligence, recruiting and mentoring the next generation of loan officers, and expanding from 42 states to nationwide coverage. In 2021, C2 was ranked No. 1 on Inman’s top 10 list of independent mortgage brokers to gain market share, which used data from the...